In the wake of Speaker-in-waiting Kevin McCarthy’s deliberate boast that the House Select Committee on Benghazi was directly responsible for Hillary Clinton’s polling numbers, here are a few updates.
Kevin McCarthy is a fairly common Irish name. Some may remember that the reason former Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy ran for Congress was because in 1993 Colin Ferguson opened fire on a LIRR commuter train killing her husband Dennis and injuring and disabling her son, Kevin McCarthy. Six were killed and 19 were injured in that attack, and Rep. McCarthy ran on a gun control platform. Carolyn served from 1997 until January of this year. Her legacy on gun control in the House is a topic for another day. Her son happens to share a name with a former colleague of hers. So does this guy whose Twitter account suffered a major onslaught.
Hillary’s Campaign has a video message from a Kevin McCarthy in Iowa.
@KevinMcCarthy is just a normal guy from Iowa, but lately he’s been receiving a lot of tweets because another Kevin McCarthy, the Republican speaker-in-waiting to the House of Representatives, recently confirmed that the committee investigating Benghazi is just a partisan effort to derail Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Even the New York Times, which has faced its own honesty challenges regarding Hillary during this enormous abuse of power, is now calling for a dismantling of the committee. Failing dissolution, they have a suggestion for a new name.
The Opinion Pages | Editorial
Shut Down the Benghazi Committee
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDOCT. 7, 2015
House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the House, acknowledged last week that was the point of burrowing into the details of the 2012 attacks on government facilities in eastern Libya that killed the American ambassador and three colleagues.
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Mrs. Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee on Oct. 22. The hearing will give Republicans another chance to attack the credibility and trustworthiness of the leading Democratic presidential candidate. It will do nothing to make American embassies abroad safer or help the relatives of the four killed in Libya.
The hearing should be the last salvo for a committee that has accomplished nothing. If the Republicans insist on keeping the process alive, the Democrats should stop participating in this charade.
Meanwhile, as noted here, Democrats on the committee are planning on releasing full transcripts of testimony as they explained in their letter of 10/05 to committee chair Trey Gowdy.
Read the Letter from Benghazi Select Committee Democrats to Trey Gowdy
October 5, 2015
There are several stories out there about the letter sent by Democrats on the Benghazi Select Committee to committee chair, Trey Gowdy. Since, if possible, we like to see primary source material, here is the letter under the official letterhead of Ranking Minority Member Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives at a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young
Still4Hill 
this is great. i’m thrilled the dems and the clinton campaign are keeping the pedal to the medal on this.
http://democrats.benghazi.house.gov/news/press-releases/democrats-release-new-video-and-fact-sheet-couldn-t-be-more-plain
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Love the video from the other Kevin, The NY Times joining the call to “shut it down” , and the Briefing video counting the 52 times Gowdy said HC.
All powerful. Also so much other feel good news all over in this campaign.
Go Hillary supporters. We are the best!
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karen, it’s about time for some good news after months of being on the defensive! there’s still a long way to go, but hillary really seems to have taken it up a notch.
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agreed. This week, she is absolutely hammering her points, and beautifully so.
I loved the pictures on this post, BTW. I dont see her much in formal pant-suite, she looks great! 🙂
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Also a joy to see that other Dems have Hillary’s back for a change;these past few months you would’ve thought she had cooties or something.
Just finished an article about how former Obama fundraisers were helping Bernie raise big bucks prior to the FEC reporting. Hmmmm;wonder if Mickey Mouse et al made their contributions from over seas as they did in ’08. Ah, well ancient history. Cartoon characters have a right to voice their opinions;clearly ,or we wouldn’t have had those two republican debates.
This morning I watched a program that followed Hillary and her state department team as they traveled to Pakistan and the Middle East. I challenge anyone to watch this documentary from National Geographic and NOT decide that Hillary is the most competent and skilled person we have available for the Presidency.
And the NYT’s is calling for the House to disband the Benghazi Committee. Again, where do I send McCarthy’s Thank You card?Even the Grey Lady is coming around. Big smile on my face today.
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It was this one. I recorded it at the time and still have it. Excellent!
https://still4hill.com/2010/11/08/dont-forget-hillary-clinton-inside-the-state-department-tonight-at-9-est-on-ngc/
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They premiered it right before her birthday and surprised her with a cake. Video here.
https://still4hill.com/2010/10/25/video-secretary-clintons-remarks-at-the-world-premiere-screening-of-inside-the-state-department/
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I have a better idea. I suggest that the Clinton campaign file a series of FOI request on all the Republican committee members on the House Select Committee on Benghazi and on the Republican House leadership requesting any and all e-mails that cover conversations highlighting the actual role of the Benghazi Committee to be that of a political hit job whose purpose was to derail the 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton. I’ll bet they would be able to discover that “smoking gun” long before the Benghazi one!
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Hmmm… A taste of their own medicine.
Because the GOP won’t disband the committee, I think the plan for the Dems is to walk away from it after Hillary testifies.
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But all things considered, one day we really do need to return to Carolyn McCarthy’s gun control efforts. She served for a long time and had to retire due to severe health challenges. They called her “the gun lady.” She fought the good fight there in the House. Bless her!
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